2025-12-03 Crab Management Advisory Committee Meeting

Marine Resources Commission - CMAQ advisory meeting · December 4, 2025

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Opening remarks and example of turtles and crab pots

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Speaker 1 recounts testing turtle excluders with a bag of dead crabs and argues that requiring recreational crabbers to use turtle excluders will change what gear and sizes recreational fishers can catch; he asks staff to provide Ken Neal's 2021 verbatim speech to the commission for context.

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Advisory committee members reviewed recreational and sanctuary rules for blue crab fisheries, debated moving the dark-sponge law date from June 15 to June 1 and whether to open or adjust sanctuaries, discussed license wait-list and pot-limit issues, and heard reports on new stone-crab sightings in the Lower Bay.

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